B-BBEE SKILLS SPEND

MAXIMISING YOUR SKILLS SPEND

KYA is well positioned to assist clients in maximising their B-BBEE level, predominantly through optimising spend (points) under their Skills Development Scorecard.

Skills Development is one of the three priority elements under Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) and is arguably the easiest area to achieve maximum points. The skills scorecard measures how far an organisation has gone to develop the competencies of black people both internally and externally.

To meet the sub-minimum requirements for Skills Development, a company must achieve 40% of the total weighting points available under this element: this equates to at least 8 out of a possible 20 points on the Generic scorecard.

Furthermore, the Code requires that Black Women should form between 40% and 50% of the beneficiaries of the relevant elements on the B-BBEE scorecard. The focus is also on Black youth, people living with disabilities, the unemployed and those living in rural areas.

KYA principally targets unemployed Black women and disabled youth and can assist in expertly facilitating the skills development process to ensure, not only achievement of your skills spend, but a greater likelihood of throughput and absorption as these individuals exit with in-demand skills. And with the B-BBEE amendments, scheduled to come into effect 30 November 2019, additional opportunities will be created for organisations wishing to spend the 2.5% of leviable amount on Bursaries for Black Students.

GENERIC COMPANY SCORECARD OPPORTUNITIES

Skills Development Expenditure for Black Students (Points Potential: 4)

The amended B-BBEE scorecard requires organisations to spend 2.5% of their leviable amount on bursaries for Black students at higher education institutions. The KYA programme (NQF 4 qualification) qualifies for this.

Unemployed Training (Points Potential: 4)

A company that enrols learner/s on a KYA Programme Module/s under the status of being unemployed can obtain a maximum of 4 points.

Category B/Internship (Points Potential: 4)

The full KYA Programme includes a National Qualification and is therefore categorised as a Category B/Internship. A company that enrols learner/s on the full KYA Programme under the status of being trained on a Category B/Internship can obtain a maximum of 4 points.

Category F/G (Points Potential: 6)

Non-accredited training will, under the amended B-BBEE codes, be eligible for 25% of total skills spend and our technical training would assist in building capacity amongst your employees.

Absorption Training (Points Potential: 5)

Our learners are intended to be workplace ready at the conclusion of the KYA Programme and companies should be confident in employing them. Alternatively, KYA relationship with Keystone Project Recruitment, enables learners to be marketed into industry, greatly increasing their chances of securing employment. A company that enables an unemployed learner to secure employment (even with a different company) can obtain a maximum of 5 points. A Generic company can therefore potentially obtain a total of 13 (out of 25) points on the B-BBEE Skills Development Scorecard by electing to participate on the KYA Programme.

QSE COMPANY SCORECARD OPPORTUNITIES

Skills Development Expenditure for Black Students (Points Potential: 4)

Category F/G (Points Potential: 6)

Non-accredited training will, under the amended B-BBEE codes, be eligible for 25% of total skills spend and our technical training would assist in building capacity amongst your employees.

Overall Black Learners Training – including Black Women (Points Potential: 15)

A company that enrols a black learner/s on any of the KYA Programme Module/s under the status of being a black women can obtain a maximum of 7 points.

Black Women Training – part of previous category (Points Potential: 7)

A company that enrols a black women learner/s on any of the KYA Programme Module/s under the status of being a black women can obtain a maximum of 7 points

Absorption Training (Points Potential: 5)

Our learners are intended to be workplace ready at the conclusion of the KYA Programme and companies should be confident in employing them. Alternatively, KYA relationship with Keystone Project Recruitment, enables learners to be marketed into industry, greatly increasing their chances of securing employment. A company that enables an unemployed learner to secure employment (even with a different company) can obtain a maximum of 5 points.

A QSE company can therefore potentially obtain a total of 30(out of 30) points on the B-BBEE Skills Development Scorecard by electing to participate on the KYA Programme.